There's some stiff competition out there, but I think Ultimate decided to prove themselves to be the worst site on the net. In just a few short weeks I've baited them into tipping their hand and proving it's not for real. They just don't get it. It's not about my winning or losing chips. It's about how I make you go to extremes to beat me.
They've made a ton of mistakes. Some were simple and obvious that I've seen before. Maybe one new trick that I caught on to in a hurry. In these few short weeks I've already reached the point where both sides are thinking, "You're on to me, I'm on to you - what are you going to do about it?"
On my side, I'm a very stubborn and competitive person. The more you try and cheat me, the more I want to annoy you. That is quite simply accomplished by lingering around. I'm supposed to get annoyed about how many hands I lose and give up. It has the opposite effect. I revel in the badness. Whoever runs Ultimate are extreme rookies at the making it look for real thing.
First off, I quietly built a healthy 27,000 chip stack playing through some incredibly bad poker. Not on my part, on the part of the other "players." Occasionally I would call a hand I shouldn't so AI would call/raise against AI and I could sit back and smile and fold. I decided to go for broke and took the entire 27,000 and sat at another statiscally unreal higher level table and made sure to post a friendly message about what I thought about the site.
Ok, you've heard this before, but here it comes again -
The results were spectacular.
Now I'm at the point where I've played over several hundreds of hands of Omaha high low and they want to cheat me so bad I've maybe won like - oh a stistically unreasonable 30 or so . And that includes splitting pots where I actually lose money since someone else has the same low.
OK, Ultimate, I shouldn't tell you this since you can change the program and benefit from this info - but you want it, so here it goes.
Don't have your AI "login" at 2:30 am, 7:00 am and 7:00 pm. When I see someone (other than me) that lives to raise on free money poker tables and doesn't sleep, my radar goes off the screen.
When a real person sits down at a mostly empty table, do not within a minute have the table fill up. Especially at 2:30 in the morning when you can scope around and see how empty the site is.
Don't bad beat someone with a four of a kind so much. To believe this site is for real, you have to believe that there's a four of a kind in Omaha like once every 10 hands. Maybe an exaggeration, but you get my point.
Other than me, virtually nobody folds pre flop. That's pretty weird.
In the real world, poker players do not instantly raise in Omaha with an ace 2. Absolute does the same thing. Do you guys have conventions and talk about how to program your AI? I haven't gotten to play 7 stud high low on Ultimate, but I know in Absolute that any ace (other than me) is worth an instant bet or raise.
Don't make excuses for pre-flop raising. They're very lame. Often they are as simple as someone posting, 'darn pre flop raising" and leaving. Or it's the bored player with few chips. Or it's the "person" who is "playing one last hand before going to bed. It's just an excuse to raise the pot so that the other rigged hand wins it. (And that's the new trend - it's not the position raising you that's going to win it's the other guy sitting back in the corner. Great excuse to call it human collusion, but when you play thousands of hands and keep seeing the same pattern it gets very annoying - except to me since I find it laughable.)
Don't do things like have a "player" post that they're annoyed about the speed of the game, leave, then rebuy-in 2 minutes later. It just makes you look like AI instead of someone that hand a change of heart.
When you complain about slow play, be consistent. Since I've been know to time out on purpose and I've been called on it, make sure that you do it to the next person.
Don't have another position show up with a similar name to mine. It doesn't make me want to get friendly with them. It only sets the bs radar off.
Don't treat me like a bot. I'm not a program. I'm a damn fine player and pretty much screwed by statstical unreasonableness - that's why I fold so much. Is that why you bad beat me so much with four of a kind? Nah, probably because I've insinuated myself on your database, I'm better than you and you just have a really hard time dealing with it.
My dog wants to play and Monday Night Football is on soon. The rant will continue later.
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